Variety (December 1912)

VARIETY T«rr* Havt«* lad. VAK1KT1E8 Htnrj Uorton A Co Gartner 4 JUyert B«rg Bros LohM ft Starling Jackson 4 Margarat 2d half lfoora'a Mother Qoom Olrla Eddla Oray Ford 4 Hyde Dean 4 Stevens E J Moore Vameoaver, B. C OKfHUUM (ac) Lea Adlera Lolo Paullach Gilbert Loaee Leonard 4 Meredith Marie Stoddard Karnoa Co PANTAOB8 English Ballet Murray K Hill Janet Louaen Co T 4 K Almond Rice B 4 Baldwin Victoria, B. C. EMfUfcbS (ac) Inez Lawson Harry Bauber "1 Died" Belle 4 Qlrard 3 Alex Wlmatfpes. EMfKUbti (ac) (Open Bun. Mat.) Jack Ark Co Borden 4 Shannon "Night In Park" Bessie LaCount Bud Snyder SHOWS NEXT WEBK. MBW VOaUK. "BELLA DONNA" (Nazlmova) — Wallack's (8th week). "BROADWAY JONES" (Geo. M. Cohan)—Co- han'a (16th week). "BROADWAY TO PARIS" (Gertrude Hoff- mann)—Winter Garden (7th week). "CHEER UP"—Harris (Dec. 30). "EVA"—New Amsterdam (Dec. 30). "EVERY WOMAN"—West End. "FANNYS FIRST PLAY"—Comedy (10th week). "HAWTHORNE, U. S. A." (Douglas Fair- banks)—Astor (9th week). "H1NDLE WAKES"—Elliott (4th week). "LITTLE WOMEN"—Playhouse (12th week). "MILESTONES"—Liberty (10th week). "MIND THE PAINT GIRL" (BUUe Burke) — Lyceum (17th week). "MISS PRINCESS" (Llna Abarbanell)— Park (2d week). "NEVER SAY DIE" (Wm. Collier)—18th St (8th week). OH, OH ! DELPHINE"—Knickerbocker (14th "PEG O* MY HEART"—Cort (3d week). "PETER PAN" (Maude Adams)—Empire (2d week). "RACKETTY PACKETTY HOUSE"—Century (2d week). "RUTHERFORD AND SON" (Norman Mc- KlnneD—Little (2d week). REPERTOIRE (Annie Russell)—30th Street (8th weak). SPOONER STOCK—Metropolis (71st week). "STOP THIEF"—Gaiety (2d week). "THE ARGYLE CASE" (Robert HUUard) Criterion (2d week). "THE CASE OF BECKY" (Frances Starr) — Grand O. H. "THE CONSPIRACY"—Garrlck (2d week). "THE DAUGHTER OF HEAVEN"—Century (12th week). "THE FIREFLY (Emma Trentlnl)— Casino (5th week). "THE GOVERNOR'S LADY"—Republic (17th wcok) "THE HIGH ROAD" (Mrs. Flske)—Hudson (7th week). "THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER"—Globe (10th week). "THE RED PETTICOAT"—Broadway (8th wook) "THE WHIP"—Manhattan (6th week). "THE YELLOW JACKET"—Fulton (0th waaV ) "UNDER MANY FLAGS"—Hippodrome (18th WEBER AND FIELDS—Music Hall (7th "WITHIN THE LAW"—Eltlnge (17th week). "YEARS OF DISCRETION"—Belasco (2d week) ZIEOFELD'S "FOLLIES" — Moulin Rouge (11th week). PHILADELPHIA. 'THE SPY"—Broad. "GARDEN OF ALLAH"—Forrest. "THE SPRING MAID"—Garrlck. "THE QUAKER GIRL"—Chestnut St. Opera House. "LITTLE MISS BROWN"—Adelphl. "LITTLE BOY BLUE"—Lyric. "ISLE O' DREAMS" (Chauncey Olcott) — Walnut. "A RUN ON THE BANK" (Ward and Vokes) —O. O. H. "TWO MEN AND A GIRL:—Chestnut St. (Stock.) "THE THIRD DEGREE"-American. (Stock.) "NORTHERN LIGHTS"—National. (Stock.) CHICAGO. "PINAFORE" (Sothern-Marlowe) —Garrlck (4th week) "THE PINK LADY"—Colonial (1st week). "FRIVOLOUS GERALDINE"—Olympic (2d w©ek 1 "BOUGHT AND PAID FOR" Princess (10th week). "EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT" (Carter De Haven)—Cohan's O. O. H. (2d week). "THE GIRL AT THE GATE"—La Salle (17th "THE ENCHANTRESS" (Kitty Gordon) -Il- linois (3d week). "WOOD NYMPHS & BARNYARD ROMEO" (Kellermann A De Angells)—American M. H. (2d week). "OUR WIVES" (Henry Kolker)-Cort (2d week). "THE CONCERT" (Leo Dltrlchsteln)-Black- stone (2d week). "ELEVATING A HUSBAND" (Louis Mann) —C. O. H. (2d week). "BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE"—Studebaker (0th week). THE RETURN FROM JERUSALEM" (Mad- ame Slmone)—Power's (2d week). "THE ROUND Ur (Maclyn Arbuckle)—Mc- Vlcker's (2d week). POPULAR TREASURER DOES IT. Philadelphia, Dec. 26. Fergus McCusker, treasurer of the Forrest, was married last week to Viola Einstein. "Fergie" put one over on his many friends by slipping away quietly for the wedding and letting them in on the secret after. "Fergie" is one of the best little fel- lows in town, a popular clubite and widely known theatrically. Chicago, Dec. 26. The engagement is announced of Ray West, in the box office of the Olympic theatre ,and Eleanor Ward, of Chicago. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. West is very wide- ly known in the city. PITT AT THE GOTHAM. Charles D. Pitt has been signed as director of the Gotham stock company, Brooklyn, to replace Raymond Capp, who has closed. OPENING NEW HOUSE. The Hill-Donaldson stock company was engaged for one special per- formance by Manager P. F. McMahon to open his new Glenn theatre, Glen Cove, L. I., Saturday under guarantee, playing "Lena Rivers." Mr. and Mrs. Hill (Miss Donaldson) had a reunion with their daughters, Marion and Corinne, who are attend- ing the Queen of Rosary Academy, in that town. RICHARDSON'S GOSSIP. (Continued from page 11.) Yet our smartest managers keep stumbling into territory of this kind, when the simplest sort of a clearing house arrangement might enable them to dodge the sure result, either by jumping into better fields, or, if neces- sary, closing up. There is no other business so devoid of ordinary precau- tions as theatrical management. Billing in Boston. The Boston theatres have an agree- ment to do no^lithographing. in the sense of window work, and to avoid advertising along similar lines, such as were much abused formerly. How it is working out, may perhaps be gathered from a communication I have received from J. P. Murphy, of the Libbie Show Print, who writes: "They are all standing pat—no one- sheets, no cards, no extra printing of any kind for the past nine months. And then they wonder why the most of them are playing to the lights. We do the business for the entire eighteen theatres, and the whole of them to- gether don't do as much in a week as I have done in the past for Charley McCaull, of the Brady concern, for a single opening." STILL SHAKESPEARING. John Kcllerd with his revival of Shakespeare has fooled everybody by sticking out his engagement at the Garden theatre despite all the predic- tions he would f ast about a week there. Theodore Roberts, Charles Stevens and Theodore Hamilton have retired from the company, others taking their places. NEW MUSIC HALL PEOPLE. Marie Dressier is no longer a mem- ber of the Weber & Fields Music Hall company. Her withdrawal occurred abruptly Saturday evening, with no likelihood of the serious breach be- tween her and the management being patched up. Saturday afternoon there appeared in the Evening World an interview with Miss Dressier, wherein she was quoted as saying she intended to hand in her notice. On her arrival at the playhouse she was asked by Joe Weber and Lew Fields if such were the case and why they, being parties in inter- est, were not informed of so impor- tant a pending event. Miss Dressier replied that she did, and then again that she didn't, con- template giving her notice; that she would have to consult with her per- sonal manager-husband, who was somewhere about. Recriminations on both sides were forthcoming, culminating in Fields re- minding her that he had carried Miss Dressier for the past three years, the comedienne retorting. Miss Dressier was invited to waive the usual fort- night's notice and told her immediate retirement would be welcomed. After a conference with husband the comedi- enne availed herself of the invitation to retire forthwith and Helena Collier Garrick was delegated to play her part. Miss Garrick has been appearing in the role since then and the manage- ment is looking about for a permanent successor to Miss Dressier. Among those under consideration are Stella Mayhew, Elizabeth M. Murray, Flor- ence Morrison and Catherine Hayes— the first two being among the more likely successors. Miss Dressier was under a personal contract to Lew Fields at $1,500 a week for twenty weeks. She is reported in negotiation for vaudeville, asking a weekly wage of $3,000, with small like- lihood of receiving that amount, al- though Hammerstein's is understood to be considering Miss Dressier as an act at $5,000 for two weeks. With Jack Norworth and Norah Bayes out of the Music Hall show (to join Fields' "Sun Dodgers") Clifton Crawford and Valli Valli made their first Weber & Fields appearance Mon- day evening. A very satisfactory all around performance was reported, al- though Miss Garrick (who had been understudy for Miss Dressier) was handed a message informing her of her husband's serious illness just be- fore she made her first entrance. STOCK AT BOYD'S. Omaha, Dec. 26. Since the recent change in the legit bookings of the local theatres went in- to effect, the Boyd opened with stock Dec. 9 witfi the Glaser stock company as the attraction. Frank Phelps is managing the company. The players include Charles Mackay, Lillian Keni- ble, William D. Corbett, Martin Wood- worth, Richard Tucker, Henry Ga- scll, Royal Theycr, Olive Cooper, Grace Goodall, and Maude Kbron. The pooling deal is not reported as having helped business for the travel- ing attractions. 15 OBITUARY Ralph Post died in an asylum neai San Fiancisco Dec. 18. The deceased was formerly of Post and Russell, one of the best known of variety teams. His wife was with her husband at the end. He had been ailing for some time and was committed to the institution shortly before his death. J. Cheever Goodwin, musical comedy librettist, died Dec. 18 at his home in New York. He was sixty years old, and leaves a wife and five children. Will C rleton, the poet, who wrote "Over the Hills to the Poorhouse," "Betsy and I Are Out," died in Brook- lyn last week after a short illness with bronchial pneumonia. Thomas O'Brien, manager of the Palace theatre, Cork, Ireland, aged thirty-three years, died recently from an attack of typhoid fever. Minnie Bernhardt, who has operated Bernhardt's Marionettes, died in Chi- cago last Wednesday, at the home of relatives. Aaron Hoffman was called to Chi- cago last week by the serious illness of his father, who died soon after his arrival there. San Francisco, Dec. 26. Joseph Nathan, known here locally as a vaudeville entertainer, died Dec. 13 at the Central Emergency Hospital in this city. Death followed epileptic convulsions. The deceased was forty- seven years old and is survived by a brother, Al Nathan. Vasill Loupoukowa superintendent of the Imperial Opera House, St. Pe- tersburg) the father of Lydia Lopou- kowa, the Russian dancer with "The Lady of the Slipper" company, is dead. The latter was notified of her father's death this week. i George H. Tyler, father of George C. Tyler, managing director of Liebler & Co., and himself well known both in theatrical and newspaper circles, died Dec. 23 at his home, 154 West 93d street, aged 72. He was born in Co- lumbus, served in the Civil War and founded and conducted a newspaper in Chilcothe, becoming an important fac- tor in local politics. When his son prospered in the theatrical field Tyler, Sr., sold out his newspaper interests and came to New York to assume the office management of Liebler & Co. Louis Nelson Jordan, head of the aerial act, died in St. Mary's Hospital, Jersey City, Monday night, at the age of 46 years. Mrs. Jordan and the cou- ple's two (laughters, who were playing on the Orpheum Circuit, were sum- moned east from Sioux City. Mrs. Eliza McBierney, mother of Olive Marison and mother-in-law of Montague Smith, a sketch writer, died suddenly in San Francisco, Monday night.